On Feb 18, 2022, Pluto enters the Aquarius 9th division of sidereal Capricorn. It will remain here until it retrogrades back to the Capricorn division, of Capricorn, by Jul 14, before re-entering the Aquarius division by Dec 26.
This shows a subtle, yet important, shift in 2022, as Pluto moves all of its focus from Capricorn, placing some on Aquarius. 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. Indeed.
Each sign is divided up by different degrees to show different divisional charts used in Indian astrology. Each divisional chart hons in on specific areas. These divisions show a more precise picture of what is going on. My teacher Pearl Finn used to say that it was like the difference between looking at the whole country and each county within that country.
In Mundane astrology, we can see certain trends when planets move from one sign to the next in each of the divisional charts. This shows important themes, underlying strengths and weaknesses.
The most important divisional chart is the 9th division (dividing the signs by 9 = 3 degrees and 20 minutes for each division). It is given such importance in Indian astrology that it is always seen side-by-side with the main chart, as if two eyes of a person's chart. Looking at both gives a fuller picture.
You may have a planet in a weak position in your birth chart, but it may tell a very different story in the 9th division. This may show an outer challenge to the significations, more obviously expressed in some sense of lack. Yet it can show an underlying strength you feel within.
You may have a weak Mars in your birth chart and apparently lack the courage to stand up for yourself. Yet if Mars were also very strong in your 9th division, I wouldn't cross you!
The 9th division shows underlying strengths of the planets’ transits, too.
This shows a subtle, yet important, shift in 2022, as Pluto moves all of its focus from Capricorn, placing some on Aquarius. 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. Indeed.
Each sign is divided up by different degrees to show different divisional charts used in Indian astrology. Each divisional chart hons in on specific areas. These divisions show a more precise picture of what is going on. My teacher Pearl Finn used to say that it was like the difference between looking at the whole country and each county within that country.
In Mundane astrology, we can see certain trends when planets move from one sign to the next in each of the divisional charts. This shows important themes, underlying strengths and weaknesses.
The most important divisional chart is the 9th division (dividing the signs by 9 = 3 degrees and 20 minutes for each division). It is given such importance in Indian astrology that it is always seen side-by-side with the main chart, as if two eyes of a person's chart. Looking at both gives a fuller picture.
You may have a planet in a weak position in your birth chart, but it may tell a very different story in the 9th division. This may show an outer challenge to the significations, more obviously expressed in some sense of lack. Yet it can show an underlying strength you feel within.
You may have a weak Mars in your birth chart and apparently lack the courage to stand up for yourself. Yet if Mars were also very strong in your 9th division, I wouldn't cross you!
The 9th division shows underlying strengths of the planets’ transits, too.
Pluto in Capricorn
Pluto entered sidereal Capricorn in Jan 2020. The first 3 degrees and 20 minutes of Capricorn just happens to be the Capricorn division in the 9th divisional chart. This occurs at the beginning of all the cardinal signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. The first 3 degrees and 20 minutes of these signs is equivalent to the same signs in the 9th division. This shows a sort of doubling up of the strengths.
But what is being strengthened, exactly?
Pluto in Capricorn has not been an easy one, I think you'd agree. Pluto is the part of us, whether personal or collective, we don't wish to look at, the changes we avoid at all costs. And yet, we know change is inevitable.
On a collective level, we have seen plenty of examples of Pluto in Capricorn since 2020, including governments enforcing lockdowns. Capricorn represents structures and systems that give us a sense of order. Pluto is about changing these structures, whether it’s the way we work, live, bank, shop, whatever we do. Capricorn is the natural 10th sign of the zodiac, which is all about our collective karma. Capricorn has such a huge say in how the world is run, and who is running it.
Pluto is about dismantling the current world order. It’s a reset.
But Pluto does so very, very slowly. Pluto has only just begun a 20-year transit in sidereal Capricorn and will continue to transit here until 2040.
What we're witnessing is the beginning of the end of many more structures that we never thought would end. And yet, we know things cannot last - even something or someone that seemed so powerful at one time.
Let's take China as an example.
When you see a totalitarian regime begin to enforce more controls on its people, it's probably telling us the regime itself feels an existential threat. It's just the same if you would attempt to maintain order if any of the structures you currently have in your life were threatened.
If someone turned up at your door one day and said you had to leave your house behind and come with them, I'm sure you wouldn't go quietly. You would fight for what you thought was yours. But is it yours?
Nothing and no one belongs to any of us. We're just passing through. Pluto teaches us this important, scary, lesson.
Blow this out to the world stage and we can see a regime’s response is perfectly natural, as is their downfall.
China is a good example because of its more recent incarnation, having recently celebrated 70 years of the People's Republic of China. The chart for Oct 1, 1949, at 15.01 in Beijing, has sidereal Capricorn as both its rising and Moon sign, with Mars opposite in the 7th with Pluto.
At first glance, Mars’ debilitation in Cancer may seem like China’s a pushover. But wait, what does Mars at 21 degrees of Cancer correspond to in the 9th divisional chart? Capricorn, Mars' exaltation sign! No, I wouldn't mess with China.
Pluto's transit through China’s 1st house and Moon sign has only just begun. And like a tooth that is rotting from the inside out, it will one day give way and collapse. The current Chinese regime will do the same. And it may happen quicker than we imagine.
When will it happen? Well, I wish I have the time of birth for its leader Xi Jinping. His date of birth is even suspect. But we could look at the exact Saturn-Neptune conjunction in sidereal Virgo in his horoscope. I think this will play a big part in the beginning of the end of this regimes downfall.
By 2025, Saturn will meet with Neptune in the opposite sign, sidereal Pisces. This will likely show the timing of a more intense period of dissolution - for his leadership, at least.
Many world leaders have a Saturn-Neptune conjunction in sidereal Virgo, including Vladimir Putin. It's absolutely a control thing.
Jinping and other leaders are likely to be challenged to maintain control in the coming years. Any attempts to maintain order are likely to flounder by mid-decade.
Perhaps it will be a more natural stepping down of the Chinese and Russian leaders, as and when they get older and have no choice but to step back. But we know from history that that is not what happens with totalitarian regimes.
Is this Jinping last hurrah? Possibly. And what does the last hurrah of a totalitarianism regime look like? Probably the worst you can think of with respect to the 'lord of the underworld' Pluto.
Tropical Transition
Pluto's transition within sidereal Capricorn to the Aquarius division highlights Pluto's transition into tropical Aquarius in the coming years. Both ways of looking at the zodiac are not only legitimate, but I also believe it’s absolutely necessary to get the full, 3D picture.
Pluto dips in and out of tropical Capricorn and Aquarius on a few occasions due to its retrograde motion. The tropical transits are as follows, as Pluto:
- enters Aquarius Mar 23, 2023
- re-enters Capricorn Jun 11, 2023
- re-enters Aquarius Dec 26, 2023
- re-enters Capricorn Sep 1, 2024
- re-enters Aquarius Nov 19, 2024
Sidereal viewers would gain much from the tropical view, a view that can be applied to Pluto's eventual transit into sidereal Aquarius by 2040.
Before any of that, Pluto's entry into the Aquarius 9th division of sidereal Capricorn shows some corresponding themes in the next few years.
The last time Pluto transited tropical Aquarius was between 1777 and 1797. Aquarius themes of individualism and rationalism were evident at the time. American independence in 1776, with Pluto in tropical and sidereal Capricorn, about to enter tropical Aquarius, as it is again.
The American and French Revolutions took place, as well as the delightful ‘’Reign of Terror’’, when France's revolutionary government ordered the execution of thousands of people over many months.
So, clearly Pluto in Aquarius is not a walk in the park. But is it all bad? Of course not. Without it, there is no progress. Although progress is usually scary as f***, we cannot live without it - literally!
Yet the coming years are likely to be so revolutionary, so technologically advanced, as to leave those who are unwilling to adapt with their heads spinning. Actually, even if you get onboard, you'll probably have your head in a spin. Have you tried the new headsets?!
But at least it's better than literally losing our heads, as was the case during the Reign of Terror with the invention of the guillotine!
This requires us all to adapt to the changes in how technology is incorporated into our everyday lives; and yes, the control this technology can give certain regimes. Yet tropical Aquarius may see populations rising up against any constraints which continue to disintegrate while Pluto transits sidereal Capricorn.
If we're all on board with the advancements, even if we question their use and who is really in control, we can at least make them work for us, as individuals, and as a global community.
To truly make these changes work for us, we must let go of what is no longer.
The only way we can progress is with the advancement of technology according to some theorists and philosophers. If we are not willing to get on board, we don’t just get left behind, we may feel it as a threat to our very existence.
We may rally against something that is inevitable.
I guess that, too, is part of the progress.
Om Tat Sat
